Honestly with this anime, your first impression is probably accurate. It is a romance- drama type of anime, that actually reminded me a lot of Clannad when I first started it. As we have been told repeatedly since we were children "do not judge a book by its covers" is incredibly important here. I must warn you, that if you decide to watch this anime, you probably should get some tissues ready.
We start of being introduced to the main character Kousei and his friend Tsubaki, it starts of very light as any shoujo anime might. We start to learn a little bit about Kousei and even from the first episode a lot is revealed about his personality which I think factors in majorly to the plot. Although as you continue it does tend to get a little predictable and monotonous, this anime is worth watching, purely for the heart tugging moments. The story is very sweet and heartwarming in its own ironic way, which leaves you balling at the end of a lot of episodes. Personally, this anime could have done with more episodes as I feel 22 did not do the story justice, however more episodes may cause people to stop watching due to its systematical anime ways (I'm sorry if that made no sense, but an example of what I mean would be any typical mahou shoujo or sports series, if that still doesn't make sense, my apologies again).
The art is different and I wasn't entirely sure whether I enjoyed it or not, but I think it worked well with the tempo of the anime. Which nicely leads on to the music, and as for that I think the picture makes it pretty self explanatory. The characters were all easy to like and relatable which is pretty rare to find an anime without at least one annoying character in my opinion. Some things could have been explained better, in a few different areas which is why I gave it a lower score but overall, I enjoyed this series a lot and think it deserves all the attention it got and I hope you found out a little bit more about it and this was helpful in one way or another.
